Lu Chixiao laughed softly, took the spoon in her hand and said, "I'll come here. You make a list. What else do you need to buy? After dinner, I asked Ayang to borrow a small truck and we went shopping!"
"You won't be working this afternoon?"
"I'll go to work later. Anyway, there's nothing much going on recently. My husband-in-law's engagement is such a big deal, can a son-in-law still ask for leave?"
Also, for weddings and weddings, workplaces generally allow leave.
The young couple divides the work and cooperates, one cooks dumplings, and the other makes purchase orders.
After checking the list, I ran to the kitchen. While the dumplings were cooking, I quickly patted a cucumber and mixed it with sesame and kelp shreds.
After eating, we went out to do some shopping hand in hand.
Little did she know that after she exited the lottery system, the Central Star of the Federation Galaxy, hundreds of millions of light years away, once again almost caused the Star Network Entertainment System of the Optical Brain to collapse due to her brief projection.
#1: Ahhh! Look who I saw again?——The eldest princess! And I was the first one to leave a message. Did no one see her arriving except me?
#2: Where are the people? Come out! Don’t doubt your life, you are really the eldest princess! If you don’t come out, you will suspect that there is something wrong with your artificial brain stem upstairs...
As soon as this building was built, in the blink of an eye, we arrived at #1888 - this person probably had great doubts about the appearance of the eldest princess: I advise you to use your brain! Everyone said that this is not the eldest princess. When did the eldest princess show up?
Smiling?
#……
#9999: #1888 sounds like you have met the eldest princess? Don’t forget, last time the eldest princess arrived suddenly, the Xingyu family did not come out to deny it. If it is false, are all the Xingyu family dead?
#……
#12888: Yes! There is also the eldest princess’s maternal family! The eldest princess’s uncle is so capable that he cannot let a piece of false news spread around.
#……
No one had received the news of the eldest princess's reappearance earlier than the two brothers Qi Heng and Qi Hui.
It's just not much better than last time, and it cuts off in a few seconds.
The two brothers are still worried about their eldest sister: they are worried that the signal is so unstable that their lives will not be threatened... If they knew that Xu Suizhu just signed with his hand, I don't know how he would be grateful.
Xu Suizhu is thinking about the engagement banquet at noon tomorrow. There are three must-have dishes for the local engagement banquet:
The first is sea cucumber, which means having many children and grandchildren. That’s not a problem because her uncle’s fishery has a lot of dry goods.
Secondly, there are lotus seeds, symbolizing the early birth of a noble son. This requires a trip to Shanli Village - the collective lake of Shanli Village. In recent years, the villagers have jointly contracted to plant lotus flowers, both for the lotus seeds and the lotus roots.
have.
The third is roasting whole pigs, which means pearls illuminating the hall. The pigs raised in nearby villages are generally local pigs. For small suckling pigs suitable for roasting whole pigs, you have to go to the pig farms in the eastern suburbs of the county.
So, the couple traveled half of the county in one afternoon.
Thanks to other dishes like the stir-fried phoenix slices with sweet beans, which symbolizes the colorful phoenix entering the house, the stir-fried shiitake mushrooms with shrimp gelatin, which symbolizes the romance of blooming flowers, the crispy crab spring rolls, which symbolizes double happiness, the braised chicken wings, which symbolizes the two-parter flying together, and the prawns and lotus root, which symbolizes a match made in heaven.
The ingredients for auspicious dishes such as the happy and sweet barley soup are basically ready-made——
Needless to say, seafood, her aunt's fishing ground is definitely not a decoration; chickens, ducks, and big white geese can be caught on Fuju Island; there is no shortage of auxiliary materials such as mushrooms, coix seeds, and lilies...
After finishing the shopping for ingredients, the young couple went to the non-staple food wholesale market in the center of the county to buy various condiments. On the way back, they also stopped by the grain station to pick up two large bags of flour. They also had to rush out a batch of red dates, longan, and peanut kernels in the evening.
Make some auspicious snacks for decoration.
In short, it took a full car to get back to the fjord scenic area.
According to the customs in the fjord area, an engagement is a prelude to the wedding in which the man goes to the woman's house with the bride price, bride price and an even number of relatives and friends, and the woman hosts a banquet.
But if the two families are far apart, and the woman's family has few relatives and the man's family has many relatives, then it is not unprecedented for the man's family to host the banquet.
Regarding the issue of whose family should host the engagement party, Xu Xiuyuan and Mrs. Qu reached an agreement when they were still on the cruise ship - the two families would host it together, but the venue would be at the groom's home.
This is mainly based on practical issues - Nancheng is too far away from here, and the engagement is an internal matter between the two families. There is no need to bring relatives, but for a wedding, both parties have to have one.
How could Xu Xiuyuan disagree? The woman insists on paying half of the money, but the man makes a net profit in terms of face, so why not?
No, before dusk arrived, a tent specifically for weddings and two temporary earthen stoves had been set up in the courtyard of the Lin family inn.
Hot water is boiling on the stove, and the water is boiling and bubbling. It is used to clean the table, wash the stools, and iron the dishes and chopsticks for tomorrow's lunch.
Although an engagement is not private to the public, most people usually set up two banquet tables at most: one table for the man and one table for the woman. Men and women with less favorable conditions can get along with one table together.
But Xu Suizhu’s group of relatives and friends couldn’t stand it!
For example, Mrs. Liang was going back to Kyoto after traveling. She heard that Honglian, a girl she had just met but got close to, was getting engaged, so she insisted on staying and drinking their engagement wine before she left.
If she doesn't leave, Xu Fenfen and his son are happy to stay for a few more days. Young Master Liang... well, he has no say, so he will be ignored.
Another example is Mrs. Fu, who came to the fjord by helicopter to see her granddaughter not long ago. She also heard that Mrs. Lu’s in-laws were getting engaged. Mrs. Fu, who originally wanted to stay a few more days to spend time with her granddaughter, now had even more reason not to rush back to Beijing.
, and had a phone call with her husband. The next day, Mr. Fu arrived with a bunch of gifts... In this case, there was no room for a table with three or five seats.
So, do you have to borrow tables, chairs, and benches? Do you have to borrow dishes and chopsticks? Borrowed ones must not be properly scrubbed and disinfected. So, all afternoon, this pot has been boiling water and washing and washing...
Another pot is waiting to kill the pig and remove its hair.
As for the chickens, ducks, geese, etc., Wu Meili quickly slaughtered them and cut them up directly on Fuju Island, and kept them frozen with big ice cubes. After Lin Jianbing went to Fuling Island to pick up Xu Tiejun and his party, he would take them with him.
Come.
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.
Fortunately, there is strength in numbers, so everyone works separately, with each person responsible for one or two things. By eight or nine o'clock in the evening, except for the cook, who still needs to prepare several time-consuming and labor-intensive dishes, everyone else can finally take a breather.
That night, except for Lin Yujuan's family and Ming'er's bride-to-be Qu Honglian's family, who returned to Platinum Coast, everyone else stayed at the Lin Family Inn.
"Huang Suyun won't come to destroy it, right?" Xu Xiuyuan tugged on her niece's arm and asked worriedly, "I have been thinking about it all this afternoon. Your father is finally willing to come out of the past and is willing to find someone who understands him.
I want to spend the rest of my life with this person, if she dares to come, I will tear her apart!"
"Well, if you don't tear it apart, I will tear it apart." Xu Suizhu held his paw seriously.